Local and integration council elections 2025

Beckum has voted

Incumbent Michael Gerdhenrich was re-elected mayor. There will be 44 seats on the council in future. All information.

14. September 2025
The re-elected mayor Michael Gerdhenrich and his wife Anna.
  • The previous incumbent Michael Gerdhenrich (here with his wife Anna Gerdhenrich) was re-elected with 53.94 per cent of the vote.

Michael Gerdhenrich confirmed in office

Incumbent Michael Gerdhenrich was re-elected mayor with 53.94 per cent of the vote.

Mayoral election diagram


Future Council

And this is the future distribution of seats (provisional final result) in Beckum town council:

Distribution of Council seats


Council gets bigger

Due to the majority ratios, there are 44 seats on Beckum town council in this electoral term instead of the previous 38 due to equalising mandates: The CDU has 18 seats (previously 14), the SPD 12 seats (the party also won 12 seats in the last election), the FWG 4 seats (previously 3), Alliance 90/The Greens also 4 seats (previously 8 seats due to the transfer of a councillor from the SPD to the Greens), the FDP 3 seats (previously 2) and the Left Party, which will be entering the council for the first time, has 3 seats.

Council composition

Council composition
Reserve list places 1
Reserve list places 2

Voter turnout for the mayoral election was 52.75 per cent, and 52.77 per cent for the council election.

All results

District level

District Administrator Dr Olaf Gericke (CDU) was confirmed in office. His challenger Sophia Maschelski-Werning (SPD) won 35.4 per cent of the vote. The following candidates from the 4 constituencies in Beckum will take part in the district council: Andreas Kühnel (CDU), Dr Ulrike Christine Keitlinghaus (CDU), Kathrin Averdung (CDU) and Christoph Tentrup-Beckstedde (CDU).